Steven Bernstein, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (49.3%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. AbbVie accounts for 80.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $76,129, 4.3 times the $17,756 reported in 2019. Among urology clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 436 payments — averaging $621.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$217K
- Coloplast$49K
- Axonics, Inc.$2K
- Carbon Medical Technologies, Inc.$2K
- Medivators Inc.$500
- C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$400
- plus $673 from 5 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $6741.56 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AbbVie$50K
- Coloplast$11K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$54,40220%
- Speaking & faculty fees$133,72549%
- Travel & lodging$50,87919%
- Food & beverage$7,8683%
- Education$24,1309%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 329 | $217,352 |
| Coloplast | 58 | $48,902 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 34 | $1,677 |
| Carbon Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Medivators Inc. | 1 | $500 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $400 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $239 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $185 |
| Femselect Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $83 |
| Caldera Medical, Inc | 1 | $19 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$271,005 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 247 urology providers in Minnesota.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 60 | $45,984 |
| Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate | 82 | $7,332 |
| Estradiol | 106 | $4,861 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 67 | $2,272 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 26 | $674 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 46 | $428 |
| Levofloxacin | 52 | $101 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Edina
- Joseph MahonEdina$86K
- Stephen OverholserEdina$20K
- Jason KemberlingEdina$19K
- Dean TortorelisEdina$19K
- Roland UgarteEdina$9K
- Paul FaddenEdina$6K
- Jeffry TwidwellEdina$6K
- Rachel MannEdina$6K
- Chase SovellEdina$5K
- Matthew BraaschEdina$5K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.